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Recent Transactions

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Recent Transactions
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2022
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Recent Transactions
NOTE 3. RECENT TRANSACTIONS
During the three-month period ended March 31, 2022, we completed or entered into the following transactions:
Debt Transactions
On January 12, 2022, we repurchased $2.5 million of the 6.75% Senior Secured Notes due 2024 (“2024 Notes”) at 101.25% of face value recognizing a loss of $53,000.
Acquisitions
We invested in a Limited Liability Company “LLC” that will own, distribute, and market a motion picture. The investment of $3.0 million at March 31, 2022 is reflected at cost in other assets. We invested an additional $1.5 million in April 2022 for a total investment to date of $4.5 million.
On February 15, 2022, we closed on the acquisition of radio station
WLCC-AM
and an FM translator in the Tampa, Florida market for $0.6 million of cash. The WLCC transmitter site will be used to broadcast radio station
WTBN-AM
due to the sale of land housing the
WTBN-AM
transmitter.
The total purchase price consideration for our business acquisitions and asset purchases during the three-month period ending March 31, 2022, is as follows:
 
Description
  
Total Consideration
 
 
  
(Dollars in thousands)
 
Cash payments made upon closing
  
$
548
 
Escrow deposits paid in prior years
  
 
60
 
    
 
 
 
Total purchase price consideration
  
$
608
 
    
 
 
 
The allocations presented in the table below are based upon estimates of the fair values using valuation techniques including income, cost and market approaches. The following preliminary purchase price allocations are based upon the valuation of assets and these estimates and assumptions are subject to change as we obtain additional information during the measurement period, which may be up to one year from the acquisition date.
Differences between the preliminary and final valuation could be substantially different from the initial estimate.
         
    
Net Broadcast
Assets Acquired
 
Assets
        
Property and equipment
   $ 418  
Broadcast licenses
     190  
    
 
 
 
    
$
608
 
    
 
 
 
Divestitures
On January 10, 2022, we closed on the sale of 4.5 acres of land in Phoenix, Arizona for $2.0 million in cash. We recorded a
pre-tax
gain of $1.8 million on the sale and have access to the land for
90-days
to relocate our transmitter equipment for
KXXT-AM.
Pending Transactions
On August 31, 2021, we entered into an agreement to sell 9.3 acres of land in the Denver area for $8.2 million. We expect to close this sale in the second quarter of 2022 and plan to continue broadcasting both
KRKS-AM
and
KBJD-AM
from this site.
On June 2, 2021, we entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement (“APA”) to acquire radio station
KKOL-AM
in Seattle, Washington for $0.5 million. We paid $0.1 million in cash into an escrow account and we began operating the station under an Local Marketing Agreement (“LMA”) on June 7, 2021. We expect this transaction to close in the latter half of 2022.
On February 5, 2020, we entered into an APA with Word Broadcasting to sell radio stations
WFIA-AM,
WFIA-FM
and
WGTK-AM
in Louisville, Kentucky for $4.0 million with credits applied from amounts previously paid, including a portion of the monthly fees paid under a Time Brokerage Agreement (“TBA”). Due to changes in debt markets, the transaction was not funded, and it is uncertain when, or if, the transaction will close. Word Broadcasting continues to program the stations under a TBA that began in January 2017.